What's new in Google search?

As usual Google develops and improves the mechanism and functionality of search engine. In 2012 Google has already made something new to make our search easier and better.

Related search previews
Find that great image you're looking for or explore a topic through pictures with related search previews. You'll find them along the top of your image search results.
Mouse over "Related searches" for a preview of the new set of results and click through to see the full results for that search.

Profiles in search
As part of Search plus Your World, Google launched profiles in search, a feature which allows you to find people faster by seeing their Google profile appear right as you type their name in search. By creating a Google profile and making it visible in search, you give Google the ability to surface the most relevant content about you.

Personal results
Google launched personal results as a feature of Search plus Your World. With personal results, you'll see relevant tips, photos, and posts from your friends right alongside results from the web. Personal results are marked with an icon so you know they're just for you. Because these results are personal and private, you'll need to be signed in to Google to see them.

To read more about news of Google search, visit http://www.google.com/insidesearch/

P.S. do you also start your day with Google? :)

New Privacy Policy of Google: improvement in usage or new KGB???

Last week Google started to to let know beforehand about new Privacy Policy and Google Terms of Service, which will come into effect from March 1, 2012. The staff of information administration of Google propose us to read is quite big, but I've read it and now I'll try to present it in a short way.

Changes that I like: simplified usage of services e.g. if we’re reading an email that reminds us to schedule a family get-together or finding a favorite video that we want to share, Google want to ensure us can move across Gmail, Calendar, Search, YouTube, or whatever our life calls for with ease.

Changes I dislike: Google starts to gather information about us!!! Information about the services that we use and how we use them, hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number + calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information and types of calls!!! Іnformation about our actual location, like GPS signals sent by a mobile device...+numbers of credit cards if you mentioned them!

Google says that these changes are made to improve interaction, to provide, maintain, protect and improve different Google services, to develop new ones, and to protect Google and its users. Google also says that they use this information to offer us tailored content – like giving us more relevant search results and ads.

New privacy policy as if allows us to merge our information collected from a single service with information from other services.  They will treat us as "a user of all their products", which means more simple and intuitive use of services from Google. The company promises not to transfer the received data to third parties, and while not collect information without obtaining the consent of each individual user.

According to critics, the process of "deanonimization" users started long before. Google Privacy Policy steadily shifting toward data sharing by all users of services. Thus, if at first company required the use of real names for social networking Google +, then these names will now appear on every search query that performs user. This fact is especially disturbing because of the lost of privacy which promoted Google before. All information will now be collected for the purposes of the corporation.

Changes I dislike are more numerous. It seems like new KGB version starts working!

P.S. personally I wouldn't like someone listen to my telephone conversations... even if they tell me that it is confident =(

Most-loved features of Chrome

Themes
Customize your browser with themes from artists around the world.

New Tab page
Visit your favorite websites easily from the New Tab page. When you open a new tab, the sites you visit most often are readily available.

Omnibox
Use the Omnibox to type both web addresses and searches in Chrome.

Incognito mode
When you don't want your website visits to be recorded in your browser history, you can browse in incognito mode.

Tabs and Stability
 Chrome is built for stability. If an individual tab freezes or crashes, the other tabs are unaffected. You can also arrange your tabs however you wish - quickly and easily. 

Google: office of my dream

Much of Google's success derives from a business strategy which CEO Eric Schmidt has described as 'ubiquity first, revenues later'. What is the secret behind Google's capacity to innovate successfully? Commentators frequently mention the freedom Google gives to its staff to work on projects of their own choosing, and the fun atmosphere created at the company headquarters.

'People in Google have up to 20 per cent of their time to 'play' with ideas and initiatives which might be of interest to the customers', explains Phil Anderson, a client director at Ashridge Business School. 'There is also a wonderful physical environment - the Googleplex - where people are provided with free food, coffee and 'play areas'.' Google staff say that typically half of all new products and features result from 'personal project' time.

Designers AMA – Albert Monti and Associati have done a great job and has successfully passed the philosophy of Google, while preserving national characteristics. In such an office where every day is it’s a great joy. It is more public space of the office. Everything was done very well, but not emphasized luxury. Comfort in the workplace includes, among other things: a nice view from the windows, good lighting, convenient location in the city center, restaurant, game room, gym, massage room, shower and other aspects make the office a place where not only has to be done. Workers can relax your body and mind, to gain new strength of positive energy. All this contributes to the creative and productive work for IU to attract new workers from among the most talented people.